ICU book errors... does no one else notice this crap??

[SuckySurgeon7]

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I just finished going back through the ICU book's acid-base chapter, and I just don't understand how these errors made it into a FOURTH edition text as famous as this one? This text is trying to convince me that the chronic compensation for a primary respiratory alkalosis (ph 7.54 and pCO2 of 23) is a 4:10 ratio of bicarb to change in pCO2... ok, that's cool... but you think that the change in bicarb is supposed to be an INCREASE?? You think the body will respond to a respiratory alkalosis by increasing the bicarb?????

God damn it. I'm just venting because I tried to read this book a long time ago and it screwed up my understanding of acid-base physiology. **** this book. And **** the goddamn editors for not changing this ****, especially in a fourth edition.

 

[sella.turcica]

I just finished going back through the ICU book's acid-base chapter, and I just don't understand how these errors made it into a FOURTH edition text as famous as this one? This text is trying to convince me that the chronic compensation for a primary respiratory alkalosis (ph 7.54 and pCO2 of 23) is a 4:10 ratio of bicarb to change in pCO2... ok, that's cool... but you think that the change in bicarb is supposed to be an INCREASE?? You think the body will respond to a respiratory alkalosis by increasing the bicarb?????

God damn it. I'm just venting because I tried to read this book a long time ago and it screwed up my understanding of acid-base physiology. **** this book. And **** the goddamn editors for not changing this ****, especially in a fourth edition.

So much passion for acid-base physiology.

 

[mistafab]

The big joke is - no one has read it. Not in four editions.

Only you.

I just don't understand how these errors made it into a FOURTH edition text as famous as this one? .

 

[073116]

WTF is ICU book lol? OP I think no one have read it except you lol.